Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.
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To ask the Scottish Government how many specialist mental health midwives are employed by each NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government which maternity units have access to a perinatal mental health midwife.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making in commissioning an options appraisal to look at the feasibility of having additional mother and baby unit capacity, including what specialist support is required in the north, as set out in its Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board Delivery Plan 2019/20.
To ask the Scottish Government what specialist services are available for prisoners who are bipolar.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress the Scottish Prison Service has made on making video visits available in all prisons, commensurate with practice in Northern Ireland and as recommended by Lord Farmer for prisons in England and Wales, by the Council of Europe and by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, and when this will be complete.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress the Scottish Prison Service has made on the HM Chief Inspector of Prisons' recommendation for the installation of in-cell telephones at HMYOI Polmont, and when this will be complete.
To ask the Scottish Government how many trauma cars there are working with the Scottish Ambulance Service.
To ask the Scottish Government how many prisoners who were subject to emergency detention and known to be bipolar there have been in each month in each of the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to each of the recommendations made by the Perinatal Mental Health Network in its report, Delivering Effective Services: Needs Assessment and Service Recommendations for Specialist and Universal Perinatal Mental Health Services.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment made in its Programme for Government, how much it will provide to third sector organisations in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020 to deliver perinatal counselling and befriending services for women.